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Amazon and USPS: Not a Jungle Out There

By law our competitive package products, including those that we deliver for Amazon, must cover their costs.

July 19, 2017 3:58 p.m. ET

While Josh Sandbulte gets some things right about the U.S. Postal Service in “Why the Post Office Gives Amazon Special Delivery” (op-ed, July 14), he provides an inaccurate and unfair account of the package delivery side of the USPS’s business.

By law our competitive package products, including those that we deliver for Amazon, must cover their costs. Our regulator, the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC), looks carefully at this question every year and has determined that they do. The PRC has also noted that competitive products...